Blogging is always my thing, something i have a strong passion
for. Maybe i want the spotlight? I don’t know, When i blog i feel free
to be creative, and i find the need to share my sensitivity about life
to everyone, whether you like it or not 
Sharing is a must to me, also, is my thing
Above is a picture of mine. Now you know who you might love ( or
hate! Well, haters are not welcomed here but I need to be welcoming in
this very first blog 
))
Recently I’ve been waiting for the result of my interview. It will come out next week, most likely Tuesday. I applied for the position of “U-buddy” at Teaching and Learning Unit of UniSA. Basically U-Buddy are those that provide help and guidance for new students, mostly about enrollment, accommodation, courses as well as information about UniSA in general. Working at TLU, we focus on cancelling, disability and visa condition etc etc. The pay is good, $28.47 per hour include 30- min- paid- break. The job is casual, but it is well-paid, so they need high level, well qualified of staffs. It’s a wonderful chance for a university student like me to earn experience in a professional environment, especially at my own University. And it is a good reference for my future job *Duh*.
However, because of its good almost unbelievable benefits, this of course is a very competitive job. I didn’t think so, at least after i was invited to attend the interview. I never think too high of myself, hence getting the interview was quite a surprise. I even thought that most people found that job too boring and insecure or whatsoever, so they didn’t have many applicants, and had to chose me for their own sake lol However, when i came to the interview, everything was different. A lots different.
Well, it turned out not to be a face-to-face interview as usual, but a group interview. Hmmm, basically there was a bunch of applicants who made it through second round (interview), me as such
They were called to a group interview and were asked to do couples of
assignments before the interviewers make their decision. By doing so,
the chance of hiring unappropriated employees will be reduced. Also, the
ability to work in a team of one individual would be tested more
accurately. As honest as I can be, i don’t think i did a good job. I might appeared to be a friendly, bubbly candidate with a quirky personality or whatsoever, but to be chosen for the job, I THINK NOT !
Well, I was in a group of 7, mostly Asians (coincidence), they all preferred to work for TLU instead of Campus center. There were Sarah, exchange student from Sweden, Crystal (Aussie), Gail from Queensland but originally from Philippine, Rahima from Sri lanka, Malita from Indonesian and a young Malaysian -Chinese ( I don’t actually remember her name, even though to me she’s quite impressive). There were a lady from Norway and a Scottish man watching over us. They were obviously the interviewers. They seemed kind and sweet, they kept smiling all the time but that didn’t tell a thing. Well, they are professional, well trained and experienced; of course they couldn’t let you know their true feelings. They might like you and can’t wait to hire you, or they find you no more than the pain in the b***, in the end they couldn’t let you know. They will try their best to make you feel as comfortable as possible, then you will show your truest self to them, bright, nice, confident, stuck-up, or ugly selves lol. However, to me those two people are nice, extremely nice. If they somehow pretended to be nice as a part of their jobs, I must say they did an extraordinary job, better than any A-class Hollywood Star
We were given 30 minutes to introduce ourselves, clockwise. Other group members might ask some questions if they felt the need to. I remembered not asking anyone anything, might not be a good thing. When it came to my turn, I kept talking about Ruud van Nistelrooy of Netherlands since he’s my forever soccer star
Then i suddenly apologized for all the annoying sounds my hand-chain made. ” I’m really really sorry for these sounds i tried real hard to take them off but trust me i couldn’t“. * what the heck was I thinking* They all laughed with/at me (you decide :S). Then, all of sudden i told them that I’m reading a book called “Possession” and ” Oh my God It gives me quite a hard time”
* Duh* How on earth a strongly- stated- to- be- confident me in my
resume came out all weird and insane. Maybe I was nervous. Melita thought I
was funny and i believed her, but i felt sorry for the others since
they had to bear with me, and my chains, and my Ruud van Nistelrooy, and
my quirky apologies, and my “Possession hard time”.
Well, i have to say in this task i was so impressed with Sarah. She was the last one to introduce us about herself when we nearly ran out of time. “Sarah. Sweden. Etc etc”. Short but meaningful enough * Even tho I can’t remember what else she did say*. And dear God she was so calm and she handled the situation well enough to be impressive. Gail gave me the idea of an attractive Asian who is good in marketing and business. She’s confident, she just went through a hard time breaking up with her boyfriend and moving down to Adelaide from Gold Coast. Well, she nailed it. She turned her personal life into a strong point to show how brave she was, which is good. Other members were ok but not memorable, except Melita, since she likes badminton *at least to me she somehow had a moment*
After that, the interviewer asked us to tell him about 1 another. Ta dah here came the real task! Crystal had to talk about me * blink* and somehow she mixed up my part with Gail’s. Poor girl. I felt sorry for her because she seemed sincere and nice yet freindly. She looked in my eyes and told me that I’m originally from Philippine, just moved down to Adelaide from Goal Coast and i’m doing accounting. Since she was so sincere, i couldn’t tell her off and no offense was taken lol When she realized her mistakes, she apologized to me, she seemed sad and kept apologizing. I tried to comfort her by saying that what she described about me were mostly true since I am Asian, I like the Filipino and I’d love to visit Gold Coast someday lol Hope that helped her to feel a bit lighter cuz in general that was not so serious of a mistake.
I had to talk about Metita woohoo *just my luck cuz i talked to her 10 mins before the interview started*. I didn’t use the note and basically just read straight from my mind. HOWEVER, I WAS SILLY ENOUGH TO LOSE MY PRECIOUS CHANCE. Instead of looking in the interviewer’s eyes and telling him about Melita, I looked into her eyes and told her about herself. Dumb dumb mistake. Even though i had a good memory but i didn’t know how to use my brain when i needed it the most. I ruined my chance. Failed!
A part from me, the others did well, however, none of them really left me any impression, except my stupid mistake. In the second task, we were asked to tell the most important feature a good customer service needs. Everyone discussed and wrote on a big page of paper. I came up with “calmness” and how it provided us ability to work under pressure. Everyone seemed to like my idea when i gave my own experience how my accent came out weirder when i was not calm and somehow i turned my weakness into a bright point. However, i seemed to fall behind the others, i should have taken the lead instead of following only.I particularly impressed with Sarah and Rahita. Sarah did the writing, well, at least she had the nerve to write lol She’s calm, she knew how to chose and simplify everyone’s ideas and sum them up to put on the paper.
After that, our group joined another group and had to present to them our ideas. The Malaysian girl seemed to talk a bit too much even though most of her ideas came from Melita. Rahima was very active ( I don’t wanna say hyperactive), she seemed to always want to contribute and sometimes it was just too overwhelming. Maybe I’m old-fashioned but if I were the interviewer, I would choose someone who tends not to overshadow the others. Melita was good, she didn’t fall into the back-up singer y, did not overtake the lead either. She was decent enough and is a very good team mate to work with. Gail was good as usual, in fact just too good. I think i did kinda Ok in this part, at least some of my colleagues thought so
In the last task we had to summarize information about the courses of Business, Accounting and Commerce in case some students ask us for information. Well, that was far out of my league so i totally lost the heat and got all down-staged. Failed T_T SAD BUT TRUE
Well, my only moment would be when i became the first one to ask a question in front of everyone there. It is important to ask questions, it shows the interviewers that you were on boat WITH THEM and you followed the whole process seriously. By asking the first question, i somehow broke the ice and encouraged others to ask. I do have to brag about this little achievement, at least somehow it helped me to earn back my confidence from all the previous performances. Basically i asked ” If we are extended to the jobs, when are we expected to hear back from you guys?“. Simple like that but it’s an important question and I’m pretty sure everyone would like to know the answer. Apart from that precise moment, I don’t think I am anywhere near “impressive”.
I personally would choose Sarah, Gail for City West campus, since they are so lively, so “city West” where business and commerce are the main field. Melita for Magil since she preferred that. I would hire the Malaysian girl for City East. She’s just decent, she’s also doing Pharmacy (3rd year) and she’s very “City East”. If I am lucky enough, i might get a chance in city East campus since it wasn’t their favor lol. However, our group wasn’t the only one, there were at least 3 more group since there were 4 different times for group interviews. It depends on how many position they have and how others performed.
Even though i haven’t known the result just yet, I guess mostly likely i didn’t get it, I believe It was fun and i learned so much from that interview. In the future, if i have any chance to go for a group interview, I will know what to do and how to achieve it. If any of my group mates get the position, I know they are more deserving and hopefully it will light up my mood, even just one tiny bit…
Sharing is a must to me, also, is my thing  |
| This is my calming down |
))Recently I’ve been waiting for the result of my interview. It will come out next week, most likely Tuesday. I applied for the position of “U-buddy” at Teaching and Learning Unit of UniSA. Basically U-Buddy are those that provide help and guidance for new students, mostly about enrollment, accommodation, courses as well as information about UniSA in general. Working at TLU, we focus on cancelling, disability and visa condition etc etc. The pay is good, $28.47 per hour include 30- min- paid- break. The job is casual, but it is well-paid, so they need high level, well qualified of staffs. It’s a wonderful chance for a university student like me to earn experience in a professional environment, especially at my own University. And it is a good reference for my future job *Duh*.
However, because of its good almost unbelievable benefits, this of course is a very competitive job. I didn’t think so, at least after i was invited to attend the interview. I never think too high of myself, hence getting the interview was quite a surprise. I even thought that most people found that job too boring and insecure or whatsoever, so they didn’t have many applicants, and had to chose me for their own sake lol However, when i came to the interview, everything was different. A lots different.
Well, it turned out not to be a face-to-face interview as usual, but a group interview. Hmmm, basically there was a bunch of applicants who made it through second round (interview), me as such
They were called to a group interview and were asked to do couples of
assignments before the interviewers make their decision. By doing so,
the chance of hiring unappropriated employees will be reduced. Also, the
ability to work in a team of one individual would be tested more
accurately. As honest as I can be, i don’t think i did a good job. I might appeared to be a friendly, bubbly candidate with a quirky personality or whatsoever, but to be chosen for the job, I THINK NOT !Well, I was in a group of 7, mostly Asians (coincidence), they all preferred to work for TLU instead of Campus center. There were Sarah, exchange student from Sweden, Crystal (Aussie), Gail from Queensland but originally from Philippine, Rahima from Sri lanka, Malita from Indonesian and a young Malaysian -Chinese ( I don’t actually remember her name, even though to me she’s quite impressive). There were a lady from Norway and a Scottish man watching over us. They were obviously the interviewers. They seemed kind and sweet, they kept smiling all the time but that didn’t tell a thing. Well, they are professional, well trained and experienced; of course they couldn’t let you know their true feelings. They might like you and can’t wait to hire you, or they find you no more than the pain in the b***, in the end they couldn’t let you know. They will try their best to make you feel as comfortable as possible, then you will show your truest self to them, bright, nice, confident, stuck-up, or ugly selves lol. However, to me those two people are nice, extremely nice. If they somehow pretended to be nice as a part of their jobs, I must say they did an extraordinary job, better than any A-class Hollywood Star
We were given 30 minutes to introduce ourselves, clockwise. Other group members might ask some questions if they felt the need to. I remembered not asking anyone anything, might not be a good thing. When it came to my turn, I kept talking about Ruud van Nistelrooy of Netherlands since he’s my forever soccer star
Then i suddenly apologized for all the annoying sounds my hand-chain made. ” I’m really really sorry for these sounds i tried real hard to take them off but trust me i couldn’t“. * what the heck was I thinking* They all laughed with/at me (you decide :S). Then, all of sudden i told them that I’m reading a book called “Possession” and ” Oh my God It gives me quite a hard time”
* Duh* How on earth a strongly- stated- to- be- confident me in my
resume came out all weird and insane. Maybe I was nervous. Melita thought I
was funny and i believed her, but i felt sorry for the others since
they had to bear with me, and my chains, and my Ruud van Nistelrooy, and
my quirky apologies, and my “Possession hard time”.Well, i have to say in this task i was so impressed with Sarah. She was the last one to introduce us about herself when we nearly ran out of time. “Sarah. Sweden. Etc etc”. Short but meaningful enough * Even tho I can’t remember what else she did say*. And dear God she was so calm and she handled the situation well enough to be impressive. Gail gave me the idea of an attractive Asian who is good in marketing and business. She’s confident, she just went through a hard time breaking up with her boyfriend and moving down to Adelaide from Gold Coast. Well, she nailed it. She turned her personal life into a strong point to show how brave she was, which is good. Other members were ok but not memorable, except Melita, since she likes badminton *at least to me she somehow had a moment*
After that, the interviewer asked us to tell him about 1 another. Ta dah here came the real task! Crystal had to talk about me * blink* and somehow she mixed up my part with Gail’s. Poor girl. I felt sorry for her because she seemed sincere and nice yet freindly. She looked in my eyes and told me that I’m originally from Philippine, just moved down to Adelaide from Goal Coast and i’m doing accounting. Since she was so sincere, i couldn’t tell her off and no offense was taken lol When she realized her mistakes, she apologized to me, she seemed sad and kept apologizing. I tried to comfort her by saying that what she described about me were mostly true since I am Asian, I like the Filipino and I’d love to visit Gold Coast someday lol Hope that helped her to feel a bit lighter cuz in general that was not so serious of a mistake.
I had to talk about Metita woohoo *just my luck cuz i talked to her 10 mins before the interview started*. I didn’t use the note and basically just read straight from my mind. HOWEVER, I WAS SILLY ENOUGH TO LOSE MY PRECIOUS CHANCE. Instead of looking in the interviewer’s eyes and telling him about Melita, I looked into her eyes and told her about herself. Dumb dumb mistake. Even though i had a good memory but i didn’t know how to use my brain when i needed it the most. I ruined my chance. Failed!
A part from me, the others did well, however, none of them really left me any impression, except my stupid mistake. In the second task, we were asked to tell the most important feature a good customer service needs. Everyone discussed and wrote on a big page of paper. I came up with “calmness” and how it provided us ability to work under pressure. Everyone seemed to like my idea when i gave my own experience how my accent came out weirder when i was not calm and somehow i turned my weakness into a bright point. However, i seemed to fall behind the others, i should have taken the lead instead of following only.I particularly impressed with Sarah and Rahita. Sarah did the writing, well, at least she had the nerve to write lol She’s calm, she knew how to chose and simplify everyone’s ideas and sum them up to put on the paper.
After that, our group joined another group and had to present to them our ideas. The Malaysian girl seemed to talk a bit too much even though most of her ideas came from Melita. Rahima was very active ( I don’t wanna say hyperactive), she seemed to always want to contribute and sometimes it was just too overwhelming. Maybe I’m old-fashioned but if I were the interviewer, I would choose someone who tends not to overshadow the others. Melita was good, she didn’t fall into the back-up singer y, did not overtake the lead either. She was decent enough and is a very good team mate to work with. Gail was good as usual, in fact just too good. I think i did kinda Ok in this part, at least some of my colleagues thought so
In the last task we had to summarize information about the courses of Business, Accounting and Commerce in case some students ask us for information. Well, that was far out of my league so i totally lost the heat and got all down-staged. Failed T_T SAD BUT TRUE
Well, my only moment would be when i became the first one to ask a question in front of everyone there. It is important to ask questions, it shows the interviewers that you were on boat WITH THEM and you followed the whole process seriously. By asking the first question, i somehow broke the ice and encouraged others to ask. I do have to brag about this little achievement, at least somehow it helped me to earn back my confidence from all the previous performances. Basically i asked ” If we are extended to the jobs, when are we expected to hear back from you guys?“. Simple like that but it’s an important question and I’m pretty sure everyone would like to know the answer. Apart from that precise moment, I don’t think I am anywhere near “impressive”.
I personally would choose Sarah, Gail for City West campus, since they are so lively, so “city West” where business and commerce are the main field. Melita for Magil since she preferred that. I would hire the Malaysian girl for City East. She’s just decent, she’s also doing Pharmacy (3rd year) and she’s very “City East”. If I am lucky enough, i might get a chance in city East campus since it wasn’t their favor lol. However, our group wasn’t the only one, there were at least 3 more group since there were 4 different times for group interviews. It depends on how many position they have and how others performed.
Even though i haven’t known the result just yet, I guess mostly likely i didn’t get it, I believe It was fun and i learned so much from that interview. In the future, if i have any chance to go for a group interview, I will know what to do and how to achieve it. If any of my group mates get the position, I know they are more deserving and hopefully it will light up my mood, even just one tiny bit…
